Looking at Hua Qingcheng's beautiful face, the dumb old man's originally withered eyes were suddenly filled with starlight.
One hand was clenched tightly into a fist, while the other, holding the bamboo basket, trembled slightly with excitement. His hands were dark and shrunken, covered with crisscrossing lines, as shocking as the dry and cracked earth, and all ten fingers were covered with black spots.
"Old man, are you okay?"
Seeing that the other party was actually staring at her in a daze, Hua Qingcheng couldn't help but ask again.
Hearing Hua Qingcheng's words, the old man smiled gently at her, but because his face was too haggard and worn, the smile seemed a little abrupt and out of place. Furthermore, his withered eyes, when he looked at Hua Qingcheng, were filled with a complex mix of emotions, whether it was amazement, surprise, or joy.
It turns out that he can still hear sounds! Seeing the old man staring at her in a daze, Hua Qingcheng thought that his ears could not hear either.
"Daddy, let me help you get it!"
Seeing that the old man was distracted by Hua Qingcheng and looked at her with an obscure look, but he didn't seem to have any ill intentions, Mu Lige let down her guard and interrupted him.
The old man shook his head when he heard this, declined Mu Lige's help, and pointed at himself to indicate that he could do it.
The two men walked forward with the mute old man, but because the old man walked slowly, the distance that should have taken less than a quarter of an hour took almost two quarters of an hour.
Hua Qingcheng and Mu Lige followed the mute old man all the way to the east of the village. She didn't expect that the old man actually lived in the land temple opposite the big banyan tree, and this tree was where Yu Qingyou usually parked his ox cart to pick up and drop off passengers.
She had ridden in the ox cart several times before, but every time she got on and off the cart, she never noticed that there was a small land temple not far from the banyan tree, and a mute old man lived in it.
The land temple was only about 15 or 16 square meters in size. After entering the temple, the old man put his belongings in a corner. On top of it was a layer of straw, and a thin, black blanket, so dark that you couldn't tell its original color, was neatly folded on it.
Seeing Hua Qingcheng surveying her residence, the mute old man stood aside, a little stiff and awkward, rubbing his hands together. Suddenly, as if on a whim, he pulled a package from the straw. Right in front of Hua Qingcheng and Mu Lige, he carefully unwrapped the rag-wrapped object and handed it to Hua Qingcheng.
Hua Qingcheng took a closer look and saw that it was a mung bean cake. It seemed that the original owner really liked to eat these snacks. When she first arrived, she found a lot of cake and other crumbs in the original owner's room.
The land temple is this big and you can see the whole thing at a glance. This piece of mung bean cake is probably the most precious thing to this old man.
"Thank you for your hospitality, old man. I like it very much."
Hua Qingcheng was simply aloof, not cold-blooded. Seeing the old man like this, she couldn't help but feel a little moved. Without a trace of pretense, she took the mung bean cake and ate it right in front of him, without showing the slightest disdain or disgust.
Two lines of turbid tears flowed from the mute old man's dry eyes. He looked at Hua Qingcheng with a loving expression, and seemed to be remembering someone through her.
After leaving the land temple, Hua Qingcheng and Mu Lige walked back a short distance, then followed his footsteps and returned to Hua's mother and father.
It turns out this guy is here to see the original owner's parents!
"Dad, is Mom done with her work?"
As soon as he entered the Hua family's yard, Mu Lige went straight to the kitchen and asked Hua's father.
Ye Maochun, who was lighting a fire in front of the stove, saw his daughter Xifu coming and hurriedly stood up to greet him.
"Your mother just got out of school and is talking to the other kids in the backyard! She'll be here soon."
"Dad, you and my wife go to the main hall to rest for a while, I'll just watch the fire."
As soon as Mu Lige arrived, he took over the work from Hua's father and sat in front of the stove.
"You have been so filial since you were young!"
Ye Maochun looked at Mu Lige, his ex-husband, with admiration, then took Hua Qingcheng's hand and went back to the main hall to talk.
"Qingcheng, sit down first. Daddy will get you something good!"
Hua Qingcheng had just sat down when she saw Hua's father hurriedly running to the backyard, and soon came back mysteriously with a big bag in his arms.
Hua Qingcheng took the big bundle handed over by her father and took out a paper bag from it. When she opened it, she found that it was filled with Chinese medicinal herbs, such as wolfberry, yam, water chestnut, eucommia bark, cinnamon, epimedium, dodder seed, cistanche, polygonum multiflorum, etc., a large pile of miscellaneous things.
Hua Qingcheng couldn't help but twitch her lips when seeing this.
Wow! They're all medicines for replenishing qi and kidney, nourishing yin and strengthening yang!
"Dad, why are you doing all this mess?"
Upon hearing this, Hua's father glared at his daughter with disappointment.
“This is good stuff!”
"Dad spent a lot of money to get this secret recipe for having a daughter, especially for you and Li Ge."
Seeing that no one was around, Ye Maochun leaned over to Hua Qingcheng's ear and whispered, "When you go back later, you and Li Ge will cook a meal together. Then eat it for seven days straight. I guarantee that you will give me and your mother a big fat granddaughter next year!"
“Cough cough cough…”
Hua Qingcheng was shocked by her father's words again, and she couldn't help coughing. Why did this old man always urge her and Mu Lige to have children every time they met?
"Dad, why don't you give it to Mom? Next year you'll give me a big fat sister!"
Thinking of the last time Situ Ye put a tonic in the chicken soup, which almost made her die of exhaustion, Hua Qingcheng was still frightened and quickly refused.
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